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No doubt performance-enhancing drugs has become ingrained in professional athletics, as baseball’s steroid scandal so often shows, but some questioned if the problem existed at the high school level.
The IHSA’s tests from last year suggest that steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs were not a problem among Illinois high school athletes. The organization, which became the fourth in the country to test athletes, checked about 700 kids for drugs. Of those, the Chicago Tribune reported that seven tested positi...
Galesburg girls cross country and track coach Jody Chapman cannot recall any instances of one of her athletes getting involved with steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
But illicit drugs are another matter, athletics officials said.
“The weird thing is it’s not so much steroids but it’s more the prescription drugs,” Moline football coach Joel Ryser said. “Kids think it’s OK to take that stuff. They don’t realize how serious that it is, that you’re not supposed to take it.
With the IHSA and the state watchdogging performance-enhancing drugs, Galesburg’s drug-testing policy is concerned primarily with street drugs, Henning said. Each week starting this fall season, four kids in sports or school activities will be randomly selected through a lottery to be tested for illicit drugs.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise they are being tested, though. At sign-ups earlier this month, parents of student-athletes signed waivers acknowledging their child may be tested, Henning said. Test results will be confidential.
The feedback, according to school officials, has been largely positive. A survey released in June by the school district showed that 70 percent of students, parents and faculty favored a drug-testing program at GHS.
It’s been a success elsewhere, Henning said. He’s talked to athletic department officials at Streator, which has tested its athletes for about a decade, and was told that program there has been hugely successful and few students come up positive.
“They don’t have a lot of kids test positive. When kids test positive, they were on some medication,” Henning said.
If a student tests positive at Galesburg, they will be enrolled in InSight, a substance abuse education program run by Bridgeway Inc, school officials have previously said. The test result would not go on the student’s permanent record, officials also said.
“Maybe we’ll save some kids,” Henning said.
In 2010, Apple heralded the iPad as the device to revolutionise the laptop era for consumers. Now with the launch of the iPad Pro, the company is set to address the 'prosumer' in the enterprise and move closer to achieving that goal. Combining power with new input devices and a platform designed for mobile, it is hoped...
But for businesses looking to become more mobile, is the iPad Pro the right option? And what has changed to make it enterprise ready?
One of the biggest factors delaying the widespread adoption of tablets in the workplace has been its processing power. Previously, tablets were used for media consumption only; however, as processing power has increased, this is no longer the case.
As well as viewing media, creative professionals can also edit videos and content too. In fact, the processor in the iPad Pro allows for video producers to edit their work on the fly, with the ability to run and edit three 4K video streams at once. Devices like the iPad Pro are freeing people from the confines of their...
Along with the iPad Pro, Apple also announced two new devices that can work in conjunction with the device. The Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil add extra flexibility to business users on the go. The Apple Pencil for example, will enable designers to draw, take notes, mark up documents, and annotate photos. Unlike a PC ...
Earlier this year, Apple invested in its app ecosystem, doubling the size that was allowed in the App Store from 2GB to 4GB. By doubling the size, app developers have much more freedom to create very powerful apps that have all the features you would expect from a standard desktop program.
With iOS 9, app thinning has now been incorporated and this means iPad Pro users can benefit from only having the elements needed for their device download, further improving the way programmes run on the new iPad. Large and powerful apps such as Salesforce and Evernote and other enterprise apps will be free to become ...
Apple devices are well known for their simplicity and ease of use – one of the key drivers for its adoption in the enterprise; however, managing and setting up multiple devices for any business is no mean feat. This is where third-party software solutions, that can manage the deployment and security of both apps and de...
Apple has not been the only one interested in growing its enterprise offering. Microsoft has been equally interested in maintaining its grip on the business sector. However, while Apple has taken its mobile offering and made it business friendly, Microsoft has come at it from the opposite angle, taking their business p...
Apple is able to deliver a harmonious user experience with apps that are tailor-made for its mobile platform and therefore specific to particular devices. Microsoft, however, is trying to shoehorn one app across a variety of different devices, meaning that mobile and desktop devices are lumbered with the same app, rega...
As is often the case when looking at new hardware, it often boils down to the user’s needs. In the enterprise, the key focus should always be on making life as easy as possible for an employee. For the businesses looking to become more mobile, there have never been so many options available, but device and application ...
“It’ll be public as soon as all of that occurs,” he said.
Barron was the only candidate advanced to the trustees by the university’s 19-member presidential search advisory committee. The development led to a sharp exchange between trustees chairman Jim Smith and vice chairman Harold Knowles.
Despite Knowles’ displeasure with the selection process, he voted for Barron.
Barron, 58, is director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and previously served was dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas and dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State University.
A native of Lafayette, Ind., he graduated from high school in Atlanta. Barron earned a geology degree from Florida State in 1973 and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Miami.
“His national prominence in his field, his extensive fundraising experience and his superlative administrative skills are an excellent fit for Florida State,” Smith said.
Wetherell, who turns 64 later in the month, will be appointed as a tenured professor in the College of Education and President Emeritus when Barron takes office.
Seleta Reynolds right choice to get L.A….
It used to be if you were a big-city mayor in search of a transit boss, you’d head in what might be called the Baron Haussmann direction: a bureaucrat unafraid, like the famous remaker of Paris, to widen all the boulevards.
Transportation was about cars, after all, because it was in cars that a post-war America got around.
These days, the bloom is off the automotive rose when it comes to city planning. A progressive mayor looking for a mobility czar wants one who’ll take a multimodal approach, emphasizing bike lanes as well as articulating buses and light rail the same as incentives to simply walk.
The gold standard in this mode is clearly former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Transit Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, the only celebrity getting-around apparatchik, who turned part of Broadway into a pedestrian town square and implemented a wonderfully controversial bike plan in the city of honking cabbies.
So when Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti went in search of his general manager for the Department of Transportation, he had Sadik-Khan — an Occidental College grad, by the way — as an adviser. And he chose Seleta Reynolds, currently with the Livable Streets sub-division of San Francisco’s transit agency. “Seleta is the ...
War on traffic? Just two decades ago no mayor would declare such a war, as it sounds too much like a war on drivers themselves. But by this time, almost permanently gridlocked L.A. is waving the white flag of surrender to the reality that more cars are not the answer. Southern Californians know there is about a five-mi...
But maybe it’s the toughest job in a tough city, so good luck getting us around.
Someone deliberately diverted Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and shut down communications with the ground, and the jetliner continued flying for six hours, Malaysia's prime minister said Saturday. The announcement shifted the focus of the investigation to the crew and passengers on the plane, which has now been miss...
Prime Minister Najib Razak's statement also meant the flight path of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to Beijing could have strayed as far as the southern Indian Ocean or northwest to Kazakhstan, complicating the work of search crews who already have been scouring vast stretches of ocean seeking the plane's 12-pe...
"Clearly the search for MH370 has entered a new phase," Najib said at a televised news conference. "It is widely understood that this has been a situation without precedent."
Experts have previously said that whoever disabled the plane's communication systems and then flew the jet must have had a high degree of technical knowledge and flying experience. One possibility they have raised was that one of the pilots wanted to commit suicide.
"A pilot rather than a hijacker is more likely to be able to switch off the communications equipment," Glynn said. "The last thing that I, as a pilot, want is suspicion to fall on the crew, but it's happened twice before."
Najib stressed that investigators were looking into all possibilities as to why the Boeing 777 deviated so drastically from its original flight path, saying authorities could not confirm whether it was a hijacking.
He said the jetliners “movements are consistent with the deliberate action of someone on the plane,” BBC News reported.
Earlier Saturday, a Malaysian official said the plane had been hijacked, though he added that no motive had been established and no demands had been made known, despite an earlier report by the Associated Press that investigators had concluded that one of the pilots or someone else with flying experience hijacked the j...
"In view of this latest development, the Malaysian authorities have refocused their investigation into the crew and passengers on board," Najib told reporters, reading from a written statement but not taking any questions.
Najib also said that the search in the South China Sea, where the plane first lost contact with air traffic controllers, would be ended. He said the new search corridors were based on the latest satellite data.
Najib also confirmed that Malaysian air force defense radar picked up traces of the plane turning back westward, crossing over Peninsular Malaysia into the northern stretches of the Strait of Malacca. Authorities previously had said this radar data could not be verified.
Police on Saturday went to the Kuala Lumpur homes of both the pilot and co-pilot of the missing plane, according to a guard and several local reporters. Authorities have said they will investigate the pilots as part of their probe, but have released no information about how they are progressing.
A Malaysian government official involved in the investigation told the Associated Press on Saturday that no motive has been established, and it is not yet clear where the plane was taken.
The plane departed for an overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing at 12:40 a.m. on March 8. Its communications with civilian air controllers were severed at about 1:20 a.m., and the jet went missing -- heralding one of the most puzzling mysteries in modern aviation history.
China, where the bulk of the passengers were from, expressed irritation over what it described as Malaysia's foot-dragging in releasing information about the search.
Investigators now have a high degree of certainty that one of the plane's communications systems -- the Aircraft and Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) -- was partially disabled before the aircraft reached the east coast of Malaysia, Najib said. Shortly afterward, someone on board switched off ...
Although the aircraft was flying virtually blind to air traffic controllers at this point, onboard equipment continued to send "pings" to satellites.
A source familiar with the investigation but not authorized to speak on the record told Fox News that flight 370 continued to send "periodic pushes" of data after the transponder went dark for about four hours after contact was lost with the aircraft, suggesting the jet continued to fly. This was described to Fox News ...
While the systems were no longer transmitting maintenance data, the satellite communication link was still active. Once an hour, the system sent out a “handshake” -- a form of reset, like a cell phone searching for an antenna tower.
The “handshake” allows the satellite to work out how much tilt or arc was needed to be in range of the plane's signal. It therefore provides a scope or range for the aircraft, but it does not provide altitude, speed or location.
If the plane had disintegrated during flight or had suffered some other catastrophic failure, all signals — the pings to the satellite, the data messages and the transponder — would be expected to stop at the same time.
The northern route might theoretically have taken the plane through China, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan -- which hosts U.S. military bases -- and Central Asia, and it is unclear how it might have gone undetected. The region is also home to extremist Islamist groups, unstable governments and remote, sparsely populated a...
U.S. aviation safety experts say the shutdown of communications systems makes it clear the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was taken over by someone who knew how the plane worked.
To turn off the transponder, someone in the cockpit would have to turn a knob with multiple selections to the "off" position while pressing down at the same time, said John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. That's something a pilot would know, but it could also be learned by...
The Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System has two aspects, Goglia said. The information part of the system was shut down, but not the transmission part. In most planes, the information section can be shut down by hitting cockpit switches in sequence in order to get to a computer screen where an option...
That's also something a pilot would know how to do, but that could also be discovered through research, he said.
But to turn off the other transmission portion of the ACARS, it would be necessary to go to an electronics bay beneath the cockpit. That's something a pilot wouldn't normally know how to do, Goglia said. The Malaysia plane's ACARS transmitter continued to send out blips that were recorded by satellite on...
Malaysia's prime minister said the last confirmed signal between the plane and a satellite came at 8:11 a.m. -- 7 hours and 31 minutes after takeoff. This was more than five hours later than the previous time given by Malaysian authorities as the possible last contact.
Airline officials have said the plane had enough fuel to fly for up to about eight hours.
"The investigations team is making further calculations which will indicate how far the aircraft may have flown after this last point of contact," Najib said.
He said authorities had determined that the plane's last communication with a satellite was in one of two possible arcs, or "corridors" -- a northern one from northern Thailand through to the border of the Central Asian countries Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and a southern one from Indonesia to the southern Indian...
Flying south would have put the plane over the Indian Ocean, with an average depth of 12,762 feet and thousands of miles from the nearest land mass.
Earlier Friday, a senior U.S. official told Fox News that the search effort would be broadened deep into the Indian Ocean, based on new intelligence assessments that there is a “higher probability” the aircraft went down in that region.
As a consequence of shared U.S.-Malaysian intelligence assessments, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Kidd is expected to expand its search into a southern quadrant of the ocean, while Indian authorities will cover a northern quadrant.
Goglia said that if Malaysian military radar tracked the plane turning west, it then followed a standard route across the peninsula until it was several hundred miles (kilometers) offshore and beyond military radar range. Airliners generally keep to such highways in the sky to avoid colliding with other planes, but the...
Britain-based aviation security consultant Chris Yates thought it was highly unlikely the plane would have taken the northern route across land in Asia.
"In theory, any country that sees a strange blip is going to get fighter planes up to have a look," he said. "And if those fighter planes can't make head or tail of what it is, they will shoot it down."
Indian officials said navy ships supported by long-range surveillance planes and helicopters scoured Andaman Sea islands for a third day Saturday without any success in finding evidence of the missing jet.
In a stinging commentary on Saturday, the Chinese government's Xinhua News Agency said the Malaysian information was "painfully belated," resulting in wasted efforts and straining the nerves of relatives.
"Given today's technology, the delay smacks of either dereliction of duty or reluctance to share information in a full and timely manner," Xinhua said. "That would be intolerable."
Najib said he understood the need for families to receive information, but that his government wanted to release only fully corroborated reports. He said his country has been sharing information with international investigators, even when it meant placing "national security concerns" second to the search. U.S., British...
In the Chinese capital, relatives of passengers who have anxiously awaited news at a hotel near Beijing's airport said they felt deceived at not being told earlier about the plane's last signal. "We are going through a roller coaster, and we feel helpless and powerless," said a woman, who declined to give her...
Zaharie joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and had more than 18,000 hours of flying experience. His Facebook page showed an aviation enthusiast who flew remote-controlled aircraft, posting pictures of his collection, which included a lightweight twin-engine helicopter and an amphibious aircraft.
Fariq was contemplating marriage after having just graduated to the cockpit of a Boeing 777. He has drawn scrutiny after the revelation that in 2011, he and another pilot invited two women aboard their aircraft to sit in the cockpit for a flight from Phuket, Thailand, to Kuala Lumpur.
Fourteen countries are involved in the search for the plane, using 43 ships and 58 aircraft.
A U.S. P-8A Poseidon, the most advanced long-range anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare aircraft in the world, was to arrive over the weekend and sweep parts of the Indian Ocean, the U.S. Defense Department said in a statement.
Fox News' Catherine Herridge, Justin Fishel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
“Friendly Ulaanbaatar” project’s consultation took place on Wednesday, which is expected to elevate tourism in Mongolia and increase Mongolia’s GDP in the long-term.
Mongolia’s GDP is expected to see a 2.5 percent increase if five million tourists visit Ulaanbaatar and spend approximately five billion MNT per year by 2030, according to the governor.
Another objective of the program is to issue five percent of the state budget, approximately 35 billion MNT, for arts, cultural and sports facilities, and events in order to attract more tourists.
One billion MNT was dedicated for such events from the state budget before 2012.
“The Mongolian economy is in a critical condition due to poor tourism development in our country. In 2013, around 1,600,000 people went abroad from Mongolia, while only 410,000 tourists and officials visited Mongolia in total. It means we are losing economic resources to other countries. Friendly Ulaanbaatar program is...
The organizers called on tour agencies, as well as sports and entertainment-based organizations to improve and form closer cooperation in order to bring out the best possible results of the program.
The program was based on development programs for Ulaanbaatar through 2020 and 2030, which were approved by Parliament.
The Ulaanbaatar City Tourism Department and Department of Arts and Culture organized the consultation, which was attended by more than 600 city officials, tourism businesses and NGOs.
Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism (MCST) Ts.Oyungerel, State Secretary General of the MCST P.Altangerel, Deputy Governor in charge of social development Ts.Enkhtsengel and Ulaanbaatar City General Manager B.Badral attended the consultation and delivered speeches.
The Ulaanbaatar City Council will discuss the program on September 22, during its regular meeting, and will deliver its views and suggestions to the coordinators.
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Brianna Perry keeps her whip game proper in the video for “Cars,” a cut off her mixtape Symphony No. 9: The B Collection.
The red-haired rapper rides out in a Ferrari and bounces in a white Jeep with her girlfriends in the fun, summertime visuals. She also takes it to the parking lot, twerking in front of a Bimmer and Benz.
Watch Brianna rattle the trunks with her booming anthem.
OAKMONT, Pa. -- Sergio Garcia stated he was going to be aggressive heading into the final round at the U.S. Open, insinuating he wanted to collect as many birdies as possible. He's taking that promise a tad too literally.

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